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Williams, Joseph J.; Lombrozo, Tania – Cognitive Psychology, 2013
How do explaining and prior knowledge contribute to learning? Four experiments explored the relationship between explanation and prior knowledge in category learning. The experiments independently manipulated whether participants were prompted to explain the category membership of study observations and whether category labels were informative in…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Evidence, Classification, Correlation
Andrews, Glenda; Halford, Graeme S. – Cognitive Psychology, 2002
Two experiments tested predictions from a theory in which processing load depends on relational complexity (RC), the number of variables related in a single decision. Tasks from six domains (transitivity, hierarchical classification, class inclusion, cardinality, relative-clause sentence comprehension, and hypothesis testing) were administered to…
Descriptors: Sentences, Age Differences, Hypothesis Testing, Factor Analysis